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It is bad because I have a loan. It was worse because I had no money. It can be better because I could repay the loans. ... It is going to be a disaster but let my grandchildren wo…

Invincible is just one of many books showcasing Lem's profound understanding of AI and its limitations servicing the mankind. I recommend Tales of Pirx the Pilot, the collection of…

The fact that others are kicking an old lady to death doesn't mean you should join them. Do what you think is right even if it doesn't change anything. Avoiding flights isn't a big…

This could be a chicken-egg thing. If the top apps had no Apple payments perhaps they wouldn't be on the list. For an established games the discovery is probably less important tho…

You can enforce it using trade bans, don't need military for that. Also, if this would be a global policy then the costs would go globally for everyone making it much easier to cop…

I'm rooting for something like this too. As for the carbonfact and their focus on promoting eco brands, I'd like them to present an alternative metric if/when possible. Measuring e…

"Global survey finds 74% also want climate crises and protecting nature prioritised over jobs and profit" - I find the results highly optimistic, but hard to believe. I'm working f…

I'm well aware of that. I remember reading a story about one of the cities in Asia which forbidden car traffic with driver only. Soon there were passengers for hire standing by the…

taxes on usage/consumption could be progressive. Using X costs you Y Using XX costs you YYY Using XXX costs you YYYYYY This way water, electricity would still be cheap for most and…

Why don't you start with an idea and self-awareness of your strengths? You might be good at puzzles. Or stories. Maybe visuals ain't your thing and you can write a text based game …

even if it would be the worst one, optimisation based on just one metric is usually a bad idea.

I've stopped playing chess as a teenager having reached ~2360. I was national youth champion, a vice-champion, 5th in the world at one point. I played 100+ games every year. Each g…

Why?

This is a good advice but on gov level. Governments don't need to be anti car, they just need to stop being pro car and incentivise their use. Stop subsidies, stop tax benefits for…

It's an excellent opportunity to remind everyone about a truly great book by Lem: "The Futurological Congress" [0] and its interesting movie adaptation "The Congress" [1]. [0] http…

I'd love a dual, absolute/category, scale to make my decisioning easier. If something is green on an absolute scale then it's a smaller problem if I pick a product labeled red on o…

CO2 footprint would be nice, but CO2 isn't only environmental factor to consider. I'd rather have colour-coded stickers with two scales - absolute and relative within a product cat…

Funny thing, the more people comment that it doesn't load, the more trending the post is and more traffic it gets and the loading wheel spins even more and more.

Were those phone numbers collected using "We need your phone number to increase your security" (or similar) or just added by users to their linkedin profiles?

Every time I read stats like this I wonder what are the externalities the PR team decided to omit. One day you hear that farmed fish are eco, the next day you find out that giganti…

I run a company offering form analytics [0] so I have seen plenty of real data on how people use forms. One stupid issue I've seen over and over again is a lack of trimming of emai…